There was a time in Aspen’s not so distant past — about four to five years ago — when jobs grew on trees and anyone with decent skills and needing employment could drop into town and pluck one.
Of course, since the fall of 2008, that’s no longer been the case.
But while it’s still an employer’s market, recent data paints a slightly brighter picture for job seekers and the local economy at large.
According to the state Department of Labor and Employment, the county’s jobless rate was 7.9 percent in June, the start of the summer tourism season. Of 10,782 people in the local labor force, 9,933 had jobs, a significant improvement over the same month last year when the unemployment rate was 8.7 percent and about 500 fewer people were employed in the county.
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